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# עַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5857

**Ai** — used 38 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5857/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַי: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5857/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Αγγαι (Gn), Γαι: old Canaanit. city, עַי always c. art. הָעַי (הָעָ֑י Gn 13:3 +), near Bethel to the SE. (exact site unknown, cf. Di Jos. 7:2 BuhlGeogr. 177), Gn 12:8 (J), 13:3 (J), Jos 7:2(×2), 3, 4, 5; 8:1(×2), 2, 3 + 18 times Jos 8 (+ Qr v 12, 16, but improb., Kt עיר, cf. Di), 9:3; 10:1(×2), 2 (all JE), 12:9 (D), Ezr 2:28 = Ne 7:32; = עַיָּת Is 10:28; עַיָּה (so Baer Ginsb, \> עַיָּא van d. H.) Ne 11:31, so read also (for עַזָּה q.v. ad fin.) 1 Ch 7:28. E. Jordan city Je 49:3 (+ חֶשְׁבוֹן), but read עָר city (?) Gf RothstKau Co (הָעִיר?).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ai (38).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.28/#tree)

אַנְשֵׁ֤י בֵֽית־אֵל֙בֵֽית־אֵל֙ וְהָעָ֔י מָאתַ֖יִם עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.men of Bethel and (the) Ai two.hundred twenty and three

*JPS 1917:* The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.

[Nehemiah 7:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.32/#tree)

אַנְשֵׁ֤י בֵֽית־אֵל֙בֵֽית־אֵל֙ וְהָעָ֔י מֵאָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.men of Bethel and (the) Ai one.hundred twenty and three

*JPS 1917:* The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred twenty and three.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5857.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5857/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).